The Rise of Machine Intelligence

To help spur that future, Calit2 has set up a Pattern Recognition Laboratory with a variety of novel low-energy processors that can execute real-time trained neural networks in the exploding mobile environment of drones, robots, and self- driving cars. However, the training of these neural networks requires massive amounts of Big Data and computing time. To support this need the NSF-funded Pacific Research Platform (PRP), which connects two dozen research universities at 100-1000 times the speed of the commodity Internet, is creating a new community of computer science machine learning researchers and proposing using the optical fiber backbone of the PRP to create a distributed Graphics Processing Unit computing "cloud." Finally, I will speculate on the exponentially growing machine intelligence and how it will increasingly inter-operate with human intelligence.